All posts tagged "civil rights"

Actually, everyone's texts are to be wiped, including the vast majority of the public who are not criminals. A more appropriate headline would have been "Your texts are private again", or "Widespread privacy violations to stop."

The Dominion Post's obsession with crime is leading it to an editorial stance which completely forgets about the rights of the public. Imagine if the police wanted to have NZ Post photocopy and retain on file all letters sent. That's exactly like what's being proposed with texts.

We wouldn't tolerate keeping copies of letters, or recordings of all calls. Perhaps that's because our expectations were set when those technologies were new, and copying wasn't feasible. It worries me how the police are quick to get in on the ground floor with new technology before concerns about abuse can be examined.

(On the side, I've noticed that the DomPost's editorial policy seems to be to use the word "crim" in headlines wherever it possibly can).